TRACKLIST

1. Taste of Love
2. heartbroken Rye...
3. DJ! Spin It Back
4. One Day
5. mad <3

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THE INTERVIEW

After listening to music randomly one day, I found this song I really really liked. I literally told all my friends about the EP it was on, as it had just been released. Even after, I couldn’t stop thinking about how good this artist’s music was! I was lucky enough to get an interview with her! A huge thank you to Cherrigekko for doing this, and also for making amazing music!

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Ashley: All right, the recording is starting all right everyone we have Cherrigekko here to do an interview with us! Very thankful to have her on here cherry gecko if you want to introduce yourself really quick.

Cherrigekko: Hi hi everyone, my name is Cherrigekko and I'm currently based in New York and a musician. I'm a producer. Yeah I make nostalgic electronic music that makes me feel cute. That's that's my slogan yeah and thanks for. Thanks for Friendcities having me on this interview on super honored.

Ashley: Yeah, we're excited to have you on here. That's for sure yeah and your slogan, that definitely rings true because when I've heard your music, I was like this is cute girl vibe music like for sure for sure.

Cherrigekko: I'm glad you get it.

Ashley: Yeah, yeah thank you OK so I'm gonna do like questions and then they might have like follow ups and then I'll do a small section of like quick questions and then we'll see there. OK so first question why the name Cherrigekko, is there any kind of like special or hidden meaning to it?

Cherrigekko: OK, so the story is actually kind of funny I was actually originally I would've been making music for like a couple years but I used another name and that's gonna be a secret. Some people will find out eventually, but I didn't really like that name and I've been thinking to find a new name and I remember when I was in high school I think and my friends one day just randomly say like “I think you look like a gecko like you look like a lizard” and then I was like actually I was like oh you know like reptiles are kind of cute so I told my mom and my mom was like “Are you being bullied at school like why do they say that?” and then I was like no no no they are so cute and I think ever since that day since I have like a personal connection with gecko I just kinda like I see myself as a gecko so that's where the gecko part came from and I was like you know just being a gecko kind of boring and I want to. I really love the color red but then ‘Red Gecko’ also sounds a little bit weird.

Ashley: Mhm.

Cherrigekko: So I was thinking of a thing that's kinda like having the color red but also kinda like pink so I thought about the fruit cherry and yeah that's where Cherrigekko came from.

Ashley: Oh my God that's such a cute story yeah I feel like Liz or lizards in general like some people like give them too much hate but I find lizards really cute, especially geckos like they are adorable.

Cherrigekko: They are so cute. They are really cute.

Ashley: Yes they are! OK and then next question: what first got you into music?

Cherrigekko: OK, so I actually just really love listening to music it's a really vague thing but I remember when I was growing up like my dad he collects a lot of CDs like we have like a room just like completely like like it's just all his CDs piled up and stuff and my mom was really pissed but nothing I didn't really- I didn't really think about music that much but then actually funny enough like it was. I feel like what really connected to me with music. It's when I was in middle school I was very very very obsessed with this K-pop group called Infinite if anyone knows it's like a second generation like boy band boy group and I was obsessed with them like I cannot stop thinking about anything else besides them and I bought like like the craziest thing I've done is I bought the same CD but I have like 20 or 30 copies of them because I want to.

Ashley: Right, to get...

Cherrigekko: I wanna get I wanna help my friend to like to have to got this entry for like a signing event but yeah and then I start making merch for them and stuff but I think that was like at that time I wasn't like “oh I really wanna make music” but I realize that's a big thing I kinda like make me feel like really connected to music and especially their genre is kind of like electronic like music. But I mean it's like K-pop but like they have a lot of electronic elements so yeah I think that was the time I was like oh maybe I really like music like that and then also around like the same probably like middle school or like early high school I kinda start playing guitar and stuff so yeah I think I just keep having the hobby and then until college. I was like “maybe I should really do music” so that was like a journey.

Ashley: Yeah, I know I feel like music like a lot of people can just like “oh I like this song”, but then some people are like oh my gosh, “I like this song because the story of how they produced this song or the story of what the lyrics mean” like music can like really run deep and like I definitely feel like I also feel like really connected to music and a lot of my friends are really connected to music and like sometimes like loving music is enough to just like “I wanna do this too” and I think that's beautiful.

Cherrigekko: Right. Aw, thank you!

Ashley: And then like did your dad or like your friend like did they influence your style of music at all like does that show up in your work?

Cherrigekko: I feel like actually like I feel like my friends there my friend most of my friends actually didn't really start listening to music like this and actually like previously I've been wanting really wanting to do like singer songwriter wasn't guitar type of style so I actually- it's a really I remember like the day that kind of like I feel like my friends actually started liking more like electronic cut music because of me because I think one day I just discovered this song called Banana shake. it's like a viral audio on TikTok like because NewJeans has used-I think someone made a edit of NewJeans dancing using that song and then yeah and then but I found I found the song like before that video and then I was like oh my God it's like a cute electronic music like I never like when I when you're kinda not in the same you thought like electronic music is like you know like EDM and raving and stuff and I never had that like face in high school so. That was the first time I feel like “Oh My God I'm really connected to music like this. It makes me feel very like nostalgic and cutesy way” and then I think that was that was kind of like one. I kinda have started having a more like vivid image of my music, production and stuff and then I kind of slowly start influencing my friends to listen to that music. So it's kind of like reverse, but it's kinda like I don't know I love like...

Ashley: You influence them?

Cherrigekko: Yes.

Ashley: Yeah, that's fun too and yeah there's such with electronic music. There's such a wide range like yeah you have like the rave and even just like rave music there's like different sub genres and there's like like something like...

Cherrigekko: Yes.

Ashley: Grabber or like Breakcore stuff and then that's just like one section and then there's like electronic pop, electronic rap, and like all the stuff so, you can find I'm sure like if you look like anybody can find something they like and it's electronic music which could be Fun.

Cherrigekko: Yes, definitely I agree with you.

Ashley: And what motivated you to start releasing your music publicly?

Cherrigekko: That's a great question. I OK funny enough it's it's actually a little bit funny story it was because at that time I was talking to a guy and he makes music and then we we stopped talking and I was like “you know what I'm gonna show you I could do it myself too” and that was kind of like the main motivation that like pushed me. I feel like I need you know sometimes you need some haters like push you a little bit forward and then I think ever since the first release, I was like you know like “maybe I kinda wanna do music like I wanna put more effort effort in.” So that's actually how it all started.

Ashley: Thats beautiful that's beautiful. So like was there a specific moment that was like “OK I'm ready to release like I'm ready to put this out there” or like you were just like “I gotta beat this guy” like...

Cherrigekko: You mean at the first release or like now?

Ashley: Yeah, the first release like when you first started getting into it.

Cherrigekko: I think like this was all like during like my last project, which is under another name and yeah, I think like the first ever single when I was releasing under that name it was like I was working with another friend who was a producer and like I feel like I have too many opinions about like how I want this song like to sound like I got to the point that he was like “if you're not releasing this, I'm gonna delete this project” and then I was like OK maybe it's time to release it.

Ashley: Oh, OK so you have you were like OK I gotta do this.

Cherrigekko: Yes, yes, that was.. Yeah, I think it's kind of related to your question like cause I've been thinking about this a lot like for my like current EP like the one under Cherrigecko called this project. I was working closely with my boyfriend. His name is Digatrip and he's also he helped me produce some of my songs on the EP and yeah, he was the one kind of like mastering it and also help with the mixing process and we got to a point that I was always like you know “I feel like we need to fix this. We need to do a little bit more to make this sound better” and then I need like an outside person like him to like Tell me like you know “I think we're overdoing this like we need to put this out like if we're not putting this out right now like this project is never gonna be out” and then I think they'll kinda like get me out of that like weird loop of like “I'm not doing enough” and stuff so yeah I think that that's always like a go factor to like to let people around you to kinda like tell you because I feel like they. Like they could like they know like when you're working too much on this project and sometimes like art you just need to like let it go and let it flow.

Ashley: Exactly. Like some some stuff will never truly be completed like but it's like the saying that I like. It's like “there's so many unreleased songs in the world” and then like if you put something out like somebody's bound to find it and like it, which I think it's also nice to know.

Cherrigekko: Right right right definitely.

Ashley: How would you describe your sound to someone who's never heard of you before?

Cherrigekko: Oh, I'm trying to think I guess it's kind of like usually like I’ll just tell people like if people are familiar with K-pop I will tell them it's like you know I love a cutesy-er version of NewJeans or you it will remind you of NewJeans And yeah, but I think generally I'll just tell people it's like kinda like pop music with more electronic elements. But also the main feeling you have is like you feel nostalgic. It might make you remember like you know your favorite like childhood dessert or something. And I know also make you feel really cute inside because deep down I think like you know everyone has that little version of them inside their heart so I think like yeah I think my music kind of will like made them recall that little version of themselves so ...

Ashley: Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, I definitely could see that in the music. Alright, how do you try to overcome like writers block or like creative challenges?

Cherrigekko: Oh, it's funny because I feel like currently. I'm kind of experiencing that but. Like previous- like when I used to encounter that I always feel like you know I have to push myself harder like I have to do more things in order to overcome this but like recently, I find it really useful to kind of just have like a hobby that it's like not related to music at all like to kind of refresh my brain and then I have this kind of I feel like every time when I experience that and I kind of start doing other random things like previously, when I experienced that I was like I start doing more like physical like media art, like I've been doing like collage and stuff but don't get to a point. I was like you know I think like “I should be doing music” like I think I've been like kind of falling behind on my project and then that will kind of motivate me back to to be back on track on this project and also refresh my brain so yeah I find it really useful of just finding something else to do for a second.

Ashley: Yeah, like resetting your mind is like like like a pallate cleanser yeah, like when you step away what kind activities help you like reset creatively would you say?

Cherrigekko: I like I like going around in peruse, I like thrifting. I feel like getting I really love like fashion and stuff so. I feel like that is also a good way to kinda like use my brain to think about other things and then recently I've been just watching shows I think that's very relaxing so yeah!

Ashley: Right yeah like sometimes like thrifting like you could see the most random item and then it could fill you with random inspiration. I feel like you could see anything.

Cherrigekko: Right, especially yeah especially those like little trinkets. I think those stuff like a lot of times like it actually like inspired like what I wanna do for my like visuals and things so I think that is actually very helpful.

Ashley: Yeah no Definitely stepping back is always good. And what's a skill outside of music that you'd say helps you as an artist like in general?

Cherrigekko: I would definitely say like I feel like vintage shopping. Thrifting is a big part and also like going to like cute stores because I feel like the main like agenda of my music is kind of like capture that feeling and I feel like sometimes a lot of you have to experience life in order to know like what that feeling feels like so like. Like when I go shopping or like go around in the city and not have that feeling of you know being inspired and then maybe I see this cute café and I was like “oh you know this café is really it reminds me of something and that's very nostalgic and cute” and then I'll try to connect like what's the elements that make me feel like that and I can incorporate to my own art like either sonic wise or like Or visual wise and I think another like fun thing I really like is, I like to go to coffee shop and then just sit there and listen to their music cause you can buy a lot of cool songs.

Ashley: Yeah, yeah especially like really small coffee shop like kinda like hipster vibe ones but kinda like like hipster like to wear it small but not like hipster it's like.. yeah.

Cherrigekko: Yes, yes Right, definitely you get it.

Ashley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no for sure. And how do you like to promote your self and your music, what do you feel works best?

Cherrigekko: I think I'm so I'm something like trying a lot, but I guess like I've been have like two ways. I really focus on like how like I wanna present my visuals cause I think I think like every part. I think promoting yourself is also an art and I want like people to see that and see like how my inner brain is, and then on the other hand I try to be like really honest and vulnerable about like what like what's behind my music like sharing the stories on TikTok and also like. Even if it's not like really in depth but like just kinda like, let people know what like why made you write that song and I'm a big believer of like like I don't wanna tell people how you should feel about my song but I could provide you like a context so I think like you know, some people might be going through similar things and I think that will kind of make them feel like oh like there's like this is like a safe space for them and I think that really means a lot to my music and connecting to people who listen to my music.

Ashley: Yeah, yeah of course yeah, I've seen a couple of your stuff on TikTok and then like I'm just like “woah like that's like what's going on behind the scenes” and that I feel like in any like music or any kind of like- like even for movies you're like oh stuff going on behind the scenes like it's interesting to see that… And what's something you've learned about yourself through making music?

Cherrigekko: I think what I learned is that I feel like.. I think previously as I mentioned, I think sometimes I'm like really really hard on myself and like those times I was like you know “why am I making music if no one really cares” like there's always I think for it every like person like starting like when you're still like very small like and I feel like sometimes you're like you know maybe I'm just being stupid. I'm like living on my own like little bubble, but I feel like. It's always like the process that I write music is like I have a feeling that people used to say I like overthink a lot so I try to like make my emotions until like a physical thing even though music is not like actually physical, but I think it's like a medium that like people could understand it's like a way of people communicating and I realize yes and I realize like every time when I finally capture that emotion in a song and then. Like I feel like validated and I feel like “oh like my emotions are true” and I realize that's a big part of like what I learned about myself like, what I want my music to be. I wanted to be like I wanted to serve as like a safe space like a thing that like people know like when they're experiencing through stuff they're not alone and I realize that part of me it's like I hope I feel like my music it's it is about me and my thoughts, but I hope like it could also be something like beneficial to other people, yeah.

Ashley: Mhm.. no yeah, definitely like so you'd say like it's more meant to Universal like yeah, like there's your own story in it but like you ultimately want people to relate.

Cherrigekko: I realize I wanna I guess like through music I realize like I really hope I could do something that is like that helps or like provide something for the community even though it's not something big but just like even like a emotional safe space and stuff I think I really value about that and I think I didn't really realize I was like that was like one of my main purposes or how I view the world but through music I realize like I Like the specific ways I want- I hope I could contribute to the world if that's not too big.

Ashley: Oh yeah, no I feel like you know anybody's anybody's hopes and dreams no matter how big they seem. I don't I don't think it's like unreasonable to feel that way for sure and then what's the been the most interesting thing about having people people and like basically strangers, listening to your music.

Cherrigekko: It’s actually incredible cause like when I put out this project I wasn't really thinking like of course I hope someone's gonna listen to my music, but I didn't know like they'll actually be strangers listening to my music and I don't feel so happy because I know like I feel like a lot of the people who listen to my music, they are like probably around my age which I'm like 24 or little bit younger and I think like I realize like a lot of people will message me like hey I'm going through finals but your music keeps me motivated and I was like yes! That is the purpose of my music like I hope my music provides like it's just weird because like you put the music out and then now like people create their own memories, withthis music and they have their own feelings and stuff and that means the world to me like I'm glad that my music is able to like share a memory with someone that's very cool.

Ashley: Yeah, for sure yeah like kind of like I forget what exactly it is but there's like there was like an interview with some other artists and she's like “oh it's kind of like you're having a baby and then you're sending the baby out into the world” and then yeah, something like that.

Cherrigekko: Yes, yes, yes, totally.

Ashley: Whats a song of yours that means something different to you now versus when you first wrote it?

Cherrigekko: Oh, I guess I think like It is for the song like I guess I'm sorry I’m trying to think...

Ashley: No for sure.

Cherrigekko: I think the song like DJ spin it back like when I first wrote it like it was like it was like during like a really really dark time of my life like. I was very lost like after graduating and stuff, and I feel like I experience a lot of things at work like I feel- I feel like the world was against me and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know if I don't know where I'm gonna be tomorrow- or like the next month and it really freaked me out and then I thought about so that's why I wrote that song because I feel like it's a similar feeling of like when someone you know when you already pay your ticket you're at a club you're like a couple drinks and with your friends and then you're just like like “what am I doing here like I hate this now” but then you're like you're already like you know I spent so much money”. I spend my time here like I don't. I don't have anywhere else to go. I just have to like enjoy the moment and I think when I wrote that song, it was like. It was really sad and I hope I could write something that like motivates me or like I think when I wrote that song, it was more like a more like sad feeling instead of like being positive. I'm trying like force myself to be positive. But like now like ever since the release and that I had more time to process what I've been going through I feel like you know I feel like instead of like feeling sad about that like now I look back at that song. I feel like it's more like a prove that I know everything will be OK and I can overcome stuff and I think that yeah it's kind of a song that kind of like grew with me so yeah I guess that is the song.

Ashley: That's beautiful yeah like definitely. I feel like there's multiple ways to interpret that song like definitely like-like like there's like some room for it to be. You can change what you can change what you get from it.

Cherrigekko: Yeah, I would really love to I would. I know you said you heard that that's probably the first song you heard from me I really love to know like what's your interpretation?

Ashley: Oh my gosh, so sometimes when I listen to music, I kinda make music videos in my head, yeah?

Cherrigekko: Right.

Ashley: So I just kinda imagine like me getting ready for a night out and then drinking to the point of like “oh my gosh, I'm probably gonna blackout” or something but you know what “I'm already here. I'm already here so let me just keep going. I gotta keep on grooving.”

Cherrigekko: Yes, yes yes that’s funny like a side story so I like when I was filming a music video for that song like actually I don't know if you saw like my TikTok video, but it was like supposedly there was like my friend and also like all these other people, but then they there was like last-minute things that came up and then at that moment when I was shooting the music I was like am I just experiencing this song again like I have no idea what I'm doing here Yeah I was like I realize that song could like connect you a lot of moment but like once like you kind of shift your mind I think it could be like a sad song, but sometimes it could be like you know “I got this” type of song.

Ashley: Yeah, like I've got this. ‘I'm gonna keep on pushing through kind of thing yeah I did.’I think I did see like all the people canceled on you which is unfortunate but I did see the music video and I like I was like oh my gosh this is so cutesy and like. It ended up great and I remember like. I OK so when I first discovered your music, I kind of would not shut up about it. I would tell everybody like “oh my gosh you need to listen” like I remember immediately after I heard the song I sent my friends like a link to the album and I was like “I just tapped into this girl’s really really cute music I got I just tapped in” yeah but and then I remember I found the music video and I remember showing my sister I was like oh my gosh like “I love her style.” I love like like it's it's kind of a simple music video where you're just kind of walking around, but that's like it's not like not to say that being simple’s a bad thing like you know, and I feel like it was. What it needed to be and then I remember there's like a part where you spend where you spin the soccer ball or something and I remember me and my sister were like “woah! That's so cool. I can't do that.”

Cherrigekko: Yes That's not me that's like director cause I think I did like once or twice and then he was like he'll just do it and I just film it.

Ashley: Oh OK, well you can't tell it's not you so that's so many people's minds You're spinning the ball and that's a skill. Some people don't have which is pretty cool.

Cherrigekko: Thank you I love hearing this from you.

Ashley: Yeah, I'm glad to share! OK, which which song of yours do you feel deserves more attention?

Cherrigekko: Oh I feel like I don't know actually like I feel like all my songs they are like very.. I don't have an expectation of like how many, like how much attention my songs should get because I feel like if it finds you, it will find you and I don't wanna force anything, but I will say I do really like like my song like ‘mad’ on the EP like that was produced by my boyfriend and that was a very special song for me because the reason why we made that song is because, I've been showing him a lot of like second generation like K-pop songs and then you know like I feel like the production has kind of changed within like the different generations of K-pop group and sounds like you know, like second generation K-pop is different than what is it what it is now. And then has been like I've been playing all those songs like nonstop For a night and he couldn't take it anymore and he he opened his Ableton and he started like producing a new music and then his way he was saying like it's just like I force feed him all these songs and he just like vomit afterwards. And then yes and then, actually that was like super cute and I think it really captures that feeling like.. I don't know I think it's a cool song because it has like there's an actual like context music context influence behind it and there's also like, I think it's just a cute song like it's like you're mad at someone but instead of like scary mad or your more like “I hope you could like talk to me. I hope you could like make me feel better” type of like mad so yeah and then I hope like cause I’ve actually been wanting to do like more visual stuff around that song, but I haven't had the chance yet but I hope people like love that song!

Ashley: Yeah, I know I like that one too. I listen to the EP and then I was like “there's not a song on here that I don't like” like I remember liking everything and I think you posted like the like pictures from like doing the visualizer and oh my gosh like it's so cool to see like it's so cool to see like behind the scenes of like like media media you're consuming like.

Cherrigekko: That is true yeah. That is like actually I feel like I've been like just yapping too much but I just kinda like get excited to share all these, but yeah.

Ashley: You no, what we love that I love that I love yapping.

Cherrigekko: And so like actually like for like this project like like a producer like a photographer working with me, his name is Pete and it's funny because we actually originally I was just gonna ask him to do like one photo and then I showed him like what I wanna do for this entire project he was like “you know like forget about that like I'll just help you do everything” and that's all we just book a studio and then we're trying to like take like the cover photo like the other visualizers for another song on the EP the name is ‘heartbroken Rye...’ and then also like this visualizer for Mad you were mentioning about and he was like “you know we're gonna do this in like three hours” and I was like “there's no way that's gonna be three hours” and then we spent an entire night we spent like six hours and When we're filming the Mad visualizer cause I get really anxious when like it's like a big thing like whether live or like like photo shoot or something I couldn't eat before that because I'm afraid I'm gonna just like vomit or I don't know just feel weird and I didn't eat anything. I just ate like a bunch of hi-chews before that. At that time was like probably like 12 or something and now that's the way that the film has been that visualizer has been shot. Was like we just like do it normally I was just dancing, but then he like kind of during his like post edit when he's editing he trying to make it like slow motion and stuff so that's why I kinda look like that which is very cool, but like it was like me nonstop dancing and I'll just I had nothing in my stomach but hi-chews and I was like I was like “I'm gonna die” and then he was like “you should sit on this chair and then like imagine you're falling” but I'm super afraid of heights and once like my my legs kind of leave the chair. I'm like “I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die” and he just keeps telling me like “yo, just like hold on like like just keep going like we're almost done. We're almost done” and then yeah but that's funny because I didn't record any of that part in the video but I think all of us were like so exhausted, but we're just. Like we're almost done.

Ashley: Like yeah “we’re almost there. We're almost there. Keep pushing we're almost there. We're almost there” ha ha yeah well, for having hi-chews only, hi-chews that day, it turned out great and yeah, you guys did a good job.

Cherrigekko: Thank you.

Ashley: Ok and what's some advice you'd give to someone or or people like who want to get into music but they like feel too shy or nervous about it?

Cherrigekko: I think I think my biggest advice is you just have to do it! Like, what I think about it. It's like actually like once I release something or put it to the public. I feel like I'm not attached to that like that much anymore like I'll still be proud of my work, but I don't think like cause you know like once I reach like the bigger audience like there's always gonna be like people who connect more with your music and people who don’t connect that much and I think that's like. I feel like what I realize it's like in the beginning I was like very afraid of like “oh what if like someone doesn't like this” or stuff but then and then I'll get really upset if someone says something that's probably not what I hope to hear but I think his advice is you just have to let the art flow and let it go and like detach from it and just keep Like moving on and like making new stuff. I think I feel like sometimes like you could sit there and overthink about what could happen but like nothing's gonna happen if you don't make the first move or step so just gotta release something, and also I think this phrase has been sitting in my head a lot. It's like “you and your favorite artist like biggest difference is like they put out something and you don't” and I think every time I think about that I was like “yeah I need to put on more projects”.

Ashley: That's good. That's a good saying cause thats true.

Cherrigekko: That's true. I mean it's difficult like when you're beginning and then I also feel like the only way to get better of that is to actually like keep practicing so I keep releasing, cause I think like the first project or the first song it's always gonna be it's always gonna take a lot of time and effort of like thinking “like am I doing the right direction like am I doing what I want” to “am I showing myself the way that I wanna be presented” and I think you know it's hard to tell like when you can't really tell a person style if they just have like one song so I think the only way to build be your style like whether like visual wise or like sonically it's like you have to keep releasing stuff and all the dots will like slowly connect each other.

Ashley: Right, yeah, yeah releasing more Yeah, definitely get a better feel of the genre and also the artist like as a musician like the artist themselves for sure. So, then this will be the quick questions section. OK so I'll do the quick questions and then I'll ask one final question and then yeah. OK so just for the quick questions I'm gonna ask the question and you just say first thing comes to your mind without like thinking about it too long... OK?

Cherrigekko: OK.

Ashley: All right, a coffee or tea?

Cherrigekko: Coffee

Ashley: Hot or cold?

Cherrigekko: Cold.

Ashley: Favorite food?

Cherrigekko: Does coffee count? That is so difficult.

Ashley: It's a drink a drink, but if you can't think of anything else we could say coffee because you know what, sometimes I have coffee for breakfast in the morning.

Cherrigekko: That is true I say coffee I say coffee

Ashley: OK, OK coffee. Girl groups or boy groups?

Cherrigekko: Girl Groups.

Ashley: Exactly. OK your favorite album right now?

Cherrigekko: Ohhh that is that is...

Ashley: What was the first one that came to mind?

Cherrigekko: OK, sorry, like F(X) Pink Tape

Ashley: Yeah, they're pretty good so like recently I've been seeing a lot of them.

Cherrigekko: I've been like I've been going down the memory Lane. This is so good.

Ashley: Ok, three artists who inspire you?

Cherrigekko: Humming Urban Stereo, the one that made Banana Shake and then I feel like it's broad, but like all the K-pop groups like yeah all type of K-pop all K-pop, and Yaeji.

Ashley: Yeah ok your top three songs on repeat right now?

Cherrigekko: Oh Oh My top three songs that is a difficult question OK, I've been listening to I've been listening to No Good by The Prodigy and then I've been listening to. I'm sorry this is not quick at all.

Ashley: No, it's OK. Just whatever the first ones come to mind and whenever they come to you.

Cherrigekko: OK and Listening to listening to Call Me by Deee-lite And I've been listening to --oh! Shadow by F(X)

Ashley: F(X) of course of course. Lyrics or melody first?

Cherrigekko: Melody.

Ashley: What's your fandom name?

Cherrigekko: I haven’t had an answer for that yet. I need help.

Ashley: OK I'm like yeah cause like I mean, cherrigekko like We could come from that you know I feel like a lot of artist they do their fandom names with like something that ties in with the name.

Cherrigekko: That is true that is true. Well, I feel like I feel like it will slowly come together because I feel like a lot of times was like someone would say like someone like identify themselves as something and I was like.

Ashley: That's true that's true like stan Twitter kind of thing.

Cherrigekko: Yes, and then you guys can decide your name.

Ashley: OK, alright guys for all the fans listening, will comment down below or-if they don't even know if they're gonna be comments on here but well we'll post about it and...

Cherrigekko: DM me!

Ashley: Yeah, DM us!

Cherrigekko: Yeah, DM us.

Ashley: Ok, and your dream collab?

Cherrigekko: My dream collab is Yaeji, I really love her music like she her visuals are everything to me like her creative processes like I love all the behind the scene videos I really hope to work with her one day.

Ashley: Crossing my fingers for you, hopefully that happens. Yaeji, if you're listening.. OK and your favorite lyric that you've written?

Cherrigekko: Oh, I really love this Like I guess there's like some lyrics I roll for my unreleased songs but now I'm gonna stick to my released songs. I really love like in One Day I wrote about like you know like “I hope to be like you one day” this is one day is a song about like me meeting my future self so “I hope to be like you one day but I hope to be like you someday but before that I'm still learning to love myself” and I think that's what I've been working on.

Ashley: That's beautiful and so like yeah and I feel like everybody. It's kind of like when your little self is like what am I gonna be when I'm grow up like what am I gonna be like growing up and like people like yeah thinking about like oh if I could talk to my smaller self like I tell her not to worry or something like that yeah so that's great. OK so that was the quick question and then my last question. Ummm, What can fans expect from you next?

Cherrigekko: Oh so I've been working on a new project. It's also gonna it's also gonna be a EP and it's probably hopefully fingers crossed.. like I don't procrastinate too much or nothing weird happens. I hope it will come out like next January or March and -not January- February or March and yeah, it's gonna be very. I Feel like it's a little bit more mature sounding than like my first project so and it's like I don't know. I feel like memory spin it back. It's a project about like you know reflecting your memories and reflecting your experience and like processing through your early 20s and I feel like this next project it's gonna be more like in depth of like like, trying to explore your inner world and like processing like the emotions and like deep emotions and I don't know things that influence you so and also I think I try to like that I feel like a lot of times like in Memories Spin It Back it's about. I mean, there's some songs about like exploring yourself but also like some like relationship and stuff, but I think the next project it's gonna be more about how you view the world.

Ashley: Right so like this Memories Spin It Back sounds more like you perceiving like every and everything around you kind of like- kind of like everything external so you think this new one's gonna be more internal vibes.

Cherrigekko: Yes, yes yes that's a good way to put it.

Ashley: Interesting, ok Awesome I'm glad I guessed right. OK what new like directions are you most Excited about exploring whether it be like technical wise or like emotional like wise like music vibe-wise.

Cherrigekko: Right so now I realize like what I've been actually listening to I mean, like the three songs that I suggested like I was listening to, but I've been listening to this song a lot. It's it's called Pro:Lov:Ad by Sweet Trip and yeah, I think technical wise I've been trying to like like explore more like my sounds I love it's still very like electronic like project the next one and I think I’m trying to like make it more like dance floor but also like having my own Cherrigekko element so like a little sparkles and yeah, and I'm really really excited about one of the song cause it's actually some emotions like I've been like processing for like over the past years so I'm really.. I'm nervous, but also excited to share that inner part of my world to other people.

Ashley: Yeah, definitely yeah it's always exciting to like make something and share it and then especially if it's like really like deep for you so yeah, I'm excited to hear it! And then any final thoughts like after this all these questions is there anything you wanna say?

Cherrigekko: I just wanna say like I don't know. Like I'm really grateful for like you know like you finding my music and anyone who's listening to my music or listening to this interview right now or .. Like Please feel free to like DM me like anytime. It's like you know if there's a special memory of like like my music and your life like I would love to hear it cause that makes me feel I don't know like I feel like that's one of the most fulfilling feelings I have it's realizing like I could actually be there for someone even though I'm not physically there. And I think that's the power of music and I'm so happy we found each other and I hope you enjoy the music and my music will always be with you.

Ashley: Yeah, thank you that's definitely. I am like hoping to have you like my at least like one of your songs at least like on my top for next like wrapped next year for sure like somethings gonna be on there. I've been playing it a lot.

Cherrigekko: Aw, thank you.

Ashley: Yeah, OK well this was our interview with Cherrigekko . I hope everybody who is listened to or read up to this point thank you so much for listening and reading and also just thank you to a Cherrigekko for being here. We're so happy to have her- I’M so happy to have you on here.

Cherrigekko: Thank you, Ashley and thank you FriendCities for having me!

Ashley: All right, bye-bye everyone.